philosophy

By ranking NGOs, Global_Geneva seeks to:

Showcase the diversity and scale of organizations encompassed by the ‘NGO’ label.

Evaluate the impact, innovation, and sustainability of NGOs using criteria that transcend geographical boundaries and sectors of activity.

Foster constructive debate and exploration of the full range of challenges facing the NGO sector.

Build a repository for best practices in NGO work, so that NGOs from different ends of the spectrum may benefit from each other’s experience, and so that sector-wide trends may become more visible.

The concept of “non-profit” has evolved far beyond traditional charity work to encompass myriad associations, foundations, coalitions, alliances, movements, and businesses that serve a diversity of objectives and engage in many ways with public and private institutions. Global_Geneva monitors the international non-profit community for ideas, values, and models that challenge normal approaches to policy, the market, and NGO activity. The Top 500 NGOs ranking is Global_Geneva’s monitoring tool.

Through a journalistic approach to research and reportage, Global_Geneva uses the rankings as a lens to bring into focus the social transformations of the NGO sector, and to magnify the broad and evolving range of values that non-profit work generates, values all but invisible from the standpoint of stock indices and other revenue-based perspectives. Global_Geneva’s overall goal is to engage and encourage thought leaders and remarkable innovators interested in the power of the non-profit concept, whether they come from academia, politics, civil society, or the private sector.